William couetenay



(No Model.)

Patented Nov. 14, 1882.

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NrTED STATES PATENT ENCE.

WILLIAM GOURTENAY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

NUT-LOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 267,329, dated November 14, 1882.

^ To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM GOURTENAY, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Composite Washer or Nut-Lock, of which the following' is a full, true, and exact description, reference being had tothe drawing, which shows a section view of a nut-lock or washer constructed after my invention.

Referring to Letters Patent No. 256,642, granted to me April 18, 1882, my present invention is a modification ot' the washer therein shown, and differs from it in having two anged caps ot' lexible metal, one on each side ofthe yielding body, and the edges or flanges ot' which overlap each other, as shown in the drawing.

A is the body, of tiber or other yielding material. B is a flanged cap, of exible metal, such as is shown in the said patent, and b is a similar cap, placed upon the opposite or under side ofthe body A, and the ange of which is sufficiently long to overlap or be overlapped by the cap B. The body A being placed between the two caps, the whole is secured together by pinching or crimping, in the precise manner shown in my said patent, or in some other suitable and similar manner.

Application filed October 5, 1882. (No model.)

' be made ofthe same length, provided one overlaps the other; and the method of securing the caps, it' any is used, must be such as will permit the flanges to overlap directly and not by a bending of one around the edges of the other.

I do not in this application claim the duplication ot the caps, broadly nor-except when their tlanges overlap-directly; but

What I do claim is- The compound nut-lock having an elastic or yielding body inclosed between two flexible metallic caps whose edges or flanges overlap without being bent around each other.

WILLIAM COUETENAY',

Witnesses.

CHARLES H. LUscoME, LUKE MADIGAN. 

